April 13, 2012
Our readers may recall an interesting copyright case lodged in 2009 by Brandon McSmith against Full Tilt Poker in which he claimed that his ideas had been copied in that company’s now discontinued television show “Face the Ace.” The apparently close interest that the Federal Bureau of Investigation took in McSmith’s action added to the […]
April 13, 2012
A source at the US-facing and fast growing Merge online poker network has told the Pokeraddict.com information site that it will no longer accept new player registrations from the staunchly anti-gambling state of Utah. Earlier this year Utah lawmakers adopted a bill forbidding any intrastate legalisation of online poker, and Gov. Gary Herbert this week […]
April 13, 2012
After months of silence, an unidentified and ‘informal’ source at Cereus Poker Network sites Absolute Poker and UltimateBet told the online poker information portal PocketFives this week that its negotiations with the US Department of Justice regarding involvement in the Black Friday indictments was close to bearing fruit. The source told PocketFives, “Our discussions with […]
April 12, 2012
Guy Laliberte’s One Drop charity, which provides water resources to third world impoverished communities, should do rather well out of the World Series of Poker’s million dollar buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament on July 1st in Las Vegas; WSOP officials announced Thursday that 30 players had committed themselves to the tournament and the […]
April 11, 2012
April 20 2012 will hopefully see ace poker players with large bank rolls entering for the Manila Millions Super High Roller tournament, where the buy-in is Hong Kong $ 1 million (about GBP 81,000) Jeff Mann, chief executive of the Asia Poker Tour which is organising the event in collaboration with Resorts World Manila, confirmed […]
April 11, 2012
When we left the Party Poker Premier League V final table late Tuesday afternoon there were five players left in the running following the eliminations of Sam Trickett, Mathew Frankland and Tom Dwan. Since then Scott Seiver has emerged the winner of the $500,000 main prize and a $25,500 seat in the WPT Championships later this […]
April 10, 2012
The final table for the PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker V has been set and play started Tuesday morning at the Montesino in Vienna. The eight-finalist table is the culmination of a series of heats that started on April 4th and involved many of the top professionals in international poker playing in groups, with each group […]
April 10, 2012
After eight straight weeks of declining traffic, the online poker business rose last week with a 2.8 percent rise, according to the independent monitoring site PokerScout. Five of the top sites benefited from the surge with traffic increases of 5 percent or more, and nine of the ten top sites all reported improvements. Fast-paced Zoom […]
April 10, 2012
The Poker Players Alliance is using this week leading to the first anniversary of Black Friday to rally U.S. poker players in a fresh protest against the restrictions politicians and enforcement agencies have placed on the game in America. Titled “The Players Will Never Fold”, the new campaign runs through April 16 and encourages players […]
April 10, 2012
When Belgian poker pro Kevin Vandersmissen took his seat at the final table of the Paddy Poker Irish Open on Monday he had not only survived an entry field of 502 quality players over three days of action, but he had the smallest chip stack in an elite group of finalists that included Ian Simpson, […]